The Art of Being Awesome

looking at my previous blog entries, I noticed I use the word 'awesome' more than any other word, so I decided to rename my blog yet again.."The Art of Being Awesome"..I'm pretty excited for the awesomeness that is my blog...

P.S. Here are a few more photos from our photo shoot...

Fun Fotos with Loretta

Loretta and I had some fun tonight..we are trying to come up with an edgy idea for our family photo this year. We haven't had a good photo taken of us in a long time and since there are no little kids in our family yet, we thought we could do something fun..our idea is wearing jeans, collared shirts, ties (even the girls), heels (girls only), and maybe some other fun accessory. We figure getting my brothers to do this will be no problem, its getting my folks on board that will be the challenge. Anyways, below are some test photos we took to show the fam to get them interested in the idea. I think they are awesome!

 

An Awesome Life

Ok, so this post is going to be about how my life has not turned out at like I expected, and thankfully so, because I could not imagine a more awesome life for myself than the one I am living. When I was a teenager I always expected that I would get married super young and have lots of babies and that would be my life...WRONG. I graduated from high school in 1998 and I went off to college. For the next few years I pursued several different majors, never really deciding on a career, but fully expecting I wouldn't have to because I was going to marry a wonderful guy who would have a great job and I would have a degree that I wouldn't really use because I would be too busy raising lots of babies to work a career...WRONG. I graduated from BYUH in 2003 still single, but just before graduation I had decided to serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I was so excited when I received my call to serve in Brazil. I spent 18 mostly awesome months teaching Brazilians the Gospel of Jesus Christ and then returned home to Washington. I expected I would meet the man of my dreams right after my mission (like Crin) and then I would have an awesome family raising lots of babies...WRONG... I've been home from my mission for 4.5 years now and still looking for that mr. right-for-me, but while I am looking I am having a lot of fun. I have tons of friends, tons of interests, more $$ than ever in my life and I quite enjoy all the free time I have (most moms I hear dedicate most of their day to their kids). I look forward to the day when I will be raising all those babies, but for now, I sure enjoy singleness, and oh so glad I didn't get married at 18 and have tons of babies..I would have missed out on a lot great experiences and I wouldn't have met all my awesome friends. I'll still get to have the awesome family and I'm so glad I had my awesome 20's.

Carey's Photoshoot

I got a new camera lens last week and I couldn't wait to use it.  I had a lot of fun shooting some photos of my friend, Carey. She loves the camera, and the camera loves her!

 

Emily's Photoshoot

I took my roommate, Emily, out to the dock for a photo shoot on Saturday. It was a lot of fun - let me know what you think of the photos and would you hire me???

 

Carving Pumpkins

It's Halloween time and I thought I would carve some pumpkins. I am by no means a skilled carver, but I gave it my best shot!

 

 

The art of retouching

I have been learning how to retouch photos in Photoshop recently.let me know which photo you like best...

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